(n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement.
(n.) Anything resembling a gusset in a garment
(n.) A small piece of chain mail at the openings of the joints beneath the arms.
(n.) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; esp., the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
(n.) An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.
Example Sentences:
(1) A transannular gusset was utilized in 74% of patients in the last 5 years of the study.
(2) The dural grafts were used as an aortic root gusset in 38 patients (35.5%) undergoing aortic valve replacement, for enlargement of the pulmonary artery or right ventricular outflow tract or both in 38 patients (35.5%), and for repair of coarctation of the aorta in 10 patients (9.4%).
(3) This reshaping was done by inserting multiple gussets into one end of the aortic prosthesis so that the flanged end fit precisely to the transverse aortic arch.
(4) This is best done by the insertion of a gusset of dura or other material to lengthen the concave side of the curve.
(5) The aortic incision was repaired with an inverted Y-shaped Dacron gusset.
(6) Discrete obstruction, present in 11, was treated by insertion of a prosthetic gusset placed across the area of narrowing and extending into the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva.
(7) A Dacron gusset was sutured to restore aortic continuity.
(8) "We're constantly bombarded by singers thrusting their gussets in our face, and then there's someone who is doing it in a most meaningful, exquisitely expressive way.
(9) A wide paneled gusset and four-way stretch Warpstreme™ fabric make these pants commute, travel and sweat ready.
(10) From 1979 to 1983, 38 patients had dura mater aortic root gussets placed during aortic valve replacement at the Southampton General Hospital.
(11) The advantages of this approach compared with a conventionally placed heterograft conduit or an outflow tract gusset are discussed.
(12) Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to measure pulmonary artery diameter and assess symmetry after two types of systemic-pulmonary artery shunts: modified right Blalock-Taussig shunt (14 patients) and central shunt (from underside of aortic arch gusset to pulmonary artery confluence) (14 patients).
(13) The present operative method involved the use of an oval pericardial gusset extending from the left auricular appendage into the split anomalous vein so as to obtain a wide anastomotic orifice.
(14) Tailoring of the annulus was performed in 39 cases and a gusset in the non-coronary sinus was used to maintain the shape of the aortic root in 67 patients.
Inset
Definition:
(v. t.) To infix.
(n.) That which is inserted or set in; an insertion.
(n.) One or more separate leaves inserted in a volume before binding; as: (a) A portion of the printed sheet in certain sizes of books which is cut off before folding, and set into the middle of the folded sheet to complete the succession of paging; -- also called offcut. (b) A page or pages of advertisements inserted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Third, excess skin and subcutaneous tissue is excised inferomedially and laterally and the nipple is inset into proper locations.
(2) Immediately post elevation and inset, the expanded flaps were still significantly larger than the control flaps by a mean 29.8% (p less than 0.01) but had lost 56% of the original area gained.
(3) The design of the flap allows primary closure of the donor site and tension-free flap inset with a robust flap blood supply.
(4) The author concludes that patellar resurfacing improves the quality of the result and that there are few drawbacks to the use of an inset patellar button.
(5) Adequate flap-to-base area ratio and length-to-width ratio, tension-free insetting of the flap, and noncompression dressing are essential for the flap's survival.
(6) Pedicle flaps can be transected 9 to 12 days after inset, thus shortening the immobilization period.
(7) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.
(8) We propose an initial excision with flap inset and a second procedure for debulking and contouring the alar groove to complete reconstruction of the aesthetic unit.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An area US officials say was an Isis vehicle staging center near Abu Kamal, Syria, is seen before (inset) and after it was struck by air strikes.
(10) Our use of an aluminum suspension basket to prevent flap tension and motion has facilitated inset of the flap resulting in healing per primum in 31 consecutive patients.
(11) A method for preoperatively estimating the flap volume, operative details, and a technique for insetting the flap are reviewed.
(12) The length of exposed radial artery pedicle was calculated to permit full range of motion of the involved digits before flap division and inset.
(13) A modification of the Abbe flap procedure is presented in which muscle-to-muscle union of the orbicularis muscle is obtained prior to inset of the flap.
(14) Two representative cases and a detailed description of flap harvesting, insetting, and donor-site closure are presented.
(15) To alleviate this risk, a new technique of balloon catheter insetion is suggested whereby a 10 inch length of prosthetic material is sewn into the artery.
(16) When choosing vascular anastomotic sites, free-flap transfer permits a greater latitude in flap orientation, tailoring, and inset than is possible when using fixed pedicled rotation flaps.
(17) After 10 days, the pedicles were ligated, so that flap survival depended totally on the new vascular supply from the inset area of the flap.
(18) Although there is a 63 per cent increase through expansion of a given flap with a particular expander, this results in only a 30 per cent increase after elevation and inset.
(19) An experiment with an animal model was designed to investigate whether an arterialized and innervated muscle flap has an optimal tension when being inset.
(20) I’m loathe to say the best, for fear of sounding like one of those people who are paid vast amounts of money to come in and fill up half an inset day with disarmingly facile platitudes.